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A Lurker's History of Paradox and the Paradox Community *
by Stacy Rowley


The Borland-to-Corel Windows Days: the Software, Versions 8, 9, and 10

August 1997 found Corel releasing Paradox 8, which included some minor updates and some major fixes, such as fixes to memory management and adding abilities to print a report to file and extremely basic Internet functionality. Some of these had been started by Borland.

Corel released Paradox 9 in October 1999. There were minor additions and a consistent user interface and a common toolbar with WordPerfect Office 2000 applications. Much of the work probably was behind the scenes in the codebase, as Corel came up the learning curve.

Additions included application templates, dockable and customizable toolbars, ability to publish reports in RTF and to WordPerfect 9, ability to read or import JPEG files (although still stored as bmp files in a table), a spell checker for edit and memo fields, ability to copy and paste data to Quattro Pro, a web form designer, and a Paradox JBDC driver. Corel was quite responsive with service packs.

In late April 2001, Corel began shipping Paradox 10, with a change in philosophy. Paradox 10 came only with the WordPerfect 2002 Office Suite, and Paradox Runtime was included (at least a bit later, when it became ready for issue).

Up until this version, the report writer dated back to PW 1.0 and various problems had crept in with intervening versions. It had proved to be a good report writer over time, but with all its code and changes to it, it always seemed to require a workaround of some sort. PW 10 attacked hard at the report writer while including enhancements to provide printouts that more accurately reproduce their screen display, print preview functionality, and more accurate rendering of reports into HTML.

Scanner and digital support was added so that images can be acquired from TWAIN devices directly into graphic fields or objects on a form, which can be automated through ObjectPAL. Related to that, cpt, gif, and wmf files formats were added to bmp and jpeg. Report publication, interactively and through ObjectPAL, can be done in a variety of file formats. String lists are an important addition allowing translatable strings for all UI Objects and ObjectPAL to be stored in an external text file and allowing an application's language to be translated readily.

As Borland had TeamB (and an Advisory Board), Corel has CTech to look to for inputs on the evolution of Paradox. In addition, Dan Alder (more next time) has used the newsgroup frequently to solicit feedback and inputs.


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